The Korea Daily Labor News(Labor Today) surveyed 100 people; officials representing the government, trade unions and employers as well as labor specialists during the period of December 14 to 21 to select top ten news in 2016.
1.
▲ Conflicts over the introduction of performance-based pay system in the public sector(Jeong Ki-hoon)
2.
▲ MOEL's two guidelines on general dismissals and rules of employment(Jeong Ki-hoon)
3.
▲ Choi Soon-sil's influence-peddling in state affairs and impeachment of President Park Geun-hye by the 2.3 million candlelight vigil people's power(Courtesy of Emergency People's Action Joint Press Team)
4(tied).
▲ Death of a 19-year old maintenance worker of an outsourced firm who was hit by an arriving train at the Guui Station in Seoul, while fixing a subway station screen door(Jeong Ki-hoon)
4(tied).
▲ 74 days of Korean Railway Workers' Union strike, the longest ever in union history(Jeong Ki-hoon)
6(tied).
▲ Restructuring of ailing shipping and shipbuilding industries and shipyard workers's joint strike(Jeong Ki-hoon)
6(tied).
▲ Collapse of a social accord on the reform of labor market.
8.
▲ Three-year imprisonment sentence to KCTU President Han Sang-gyun at the appeals court(Jeong Ki-hoon)
9.
▲ Suspected Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil gate in collusion with the conglomerates behind the labor reform(Jeong Ki-hoon)
10.
▲ 'Employment cliff', rapidly disappearing jobs and gloomier prospect
